Spoken Word Sundays is back at New York City’s Parkside Lounge!

*** There is construction at the Parkside this fall so we will be back on Zoom on November 7 and November 14. As you know, things change fast. Please keep checking our website and Facebook page for updates.

** EVERYONE MUST PROVIDE PROOF OF FULL VACCINATION TO ENTER THE VENUE.

Featuring Ivan Klein and Don Yorty

Plus poetry open mic

Hosted by David Lawton

21+

$3 suggested donation. Two drink min, alcoholic or non.

Ivan Klein’s most recent collection is The Hat and Other Poems and Prose from Sixth Floor Press in 2021. His other books include Published Toward Melville (New Feral Press) and Alternatives to Silence (Starfire Press). Ivan is a frequent contributor to the online art magazine Arteidolia and you can also find his writing in Leviathan, Long Shot, Flying Fish, The Jewish Literary Journal, The Forward, and in the great weather for MEDIA anthology Paper Teller Diorama. He lives and writes in downtown Manhattan.

Don Yorty is a writer and garden activist living in New York City. He’s the author of three poetry collections, A Few Swimmers Appear and Poet Laundromat (both from Philadelphia Eye & Ear), and Spring Sonnets (Indolent Books). His novel What Night Forgets was published by Herodias Press in 2000. He blogs at donyorty.com: an archive of current art, his own writing, and work of other poets. Fucking and Other Poems (Indolent Books) should be out next year.